Conferences

ICPC

On the Impact of Code Comments for Automated Bug-Fixing: An Empirical Study

Antonio Vitale, Emanuela Guglielmi, Simone Scalabrino, and Rocco Oliveto.
International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC) 2026
MSR

Human-Agent versus Human Pull Requests: A Testing-Focused Characterization and Comparison

Roberto Milanese, Francesco Salzano, Angelica Spina, Antonio Vitale, Remo Pareschi, Fausto Fasano, and Mattia Fazzini.
International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR) - Mining Challenge Track 2026
ICPC

Personalized Code Readability Assessment: Are We There Yet?

Antonio Vitale, Emanuela Guglielmi, Rocco Oliveto, and Simone Scalabrino.
International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC) - RENE Track 2025
ICPC

Optimizing Datasets for Code Summarization: Is Code-Comment Coherence Enough?

Antonio Vitale, Antonio Mastropaolo, Rocco Oliveto, Massimiliano Di Penta, and Simone Scalabrino.
International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC) 2025
ASE

Using Deep Learning to Automatically Improve Code Readability

Antonio Vitale, Valentina Piantadosi, Simone Scalabrino, and Rocco Oliveto.
International Conference on Automated Software Engineeing (ASE) 2023

Journals

TOSEM (to appear soon)

Toward Explaining Large Language Models in Software Engineering Tasks

Antonio Vitale, Khai-Nguyen Nguyen, Denys Poshyvanyk, Rocco Oliveto, Simone Scalabrino, and Antonio Mastropaolo.
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)
EMSE

Revisiting Code Readability Improvement with LLMs: A Critical Assessment of Fine-Tuned Models

Antonio Vitale, Emanuela Guglielmi, Valentina Piantadosi, Antonio Mastropaolo, Gabriele Bavota, Rocco Oliveto, and Simone Scalabrino.
Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE) 2026
TOSEM

A Catalog of Data Smells for Coding Tasks

Antonio Vitale, Rocco Oliveto, and Simone Scalabrino.
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM) 2024